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Monroe County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

32,002 67,797 5,645 262,624 31,025 336,250
Evangelical Protestant Mainline Protestant Orthodox Catholic Other Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports


Religious Bodies Theology Congregations Adherents Adherence Rate
Catholic Church Catholic 78 233,718 327.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 34 18,015 25.2
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 17,414 24.4
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 14 16,382 23.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 31 15,938 22.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 33 15,521 21.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 19 12,210 17.1
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 22 10,395 14.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 14 8,459 11.9
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 17 7,330 10.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 14 4,520 6.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 4 2,770 3.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 7 2,641 3.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 6 1,769 2.5
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 8 1,624 2.3
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 7 1,518 2.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 3 1,425 2.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 1,412 2.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 2 1,338 1.9
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 4 1,259 1.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 1,253 1.8
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 5 992 1.4
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 2 744 1.0
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 6 554 0.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 6 411 0.6
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 400 0.6
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 338 0.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 322 0.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 276 0.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 2 193 0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 2 188 0.3
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 172 0.2
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 161 0.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 103 0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 75 0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 70 0.1
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 67 0.1
Church of the Lutheran Confession Evangelical Protestant 1 60 0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 58 0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 1 51 0.1
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 4 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 376 382,171  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 713,968. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (382,171) include 53.5% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.